Film · Universal · 1925
Pass it on
His People
65Worth an evening.
A father thinks he already knows which son is really his.
The review
Modest hit, and it stayed in the talk, which fits a story that never needed a spectacle. A Jewish father on the Lower East Side. One son studies. One son boxes. The father thinks he knows which son is his. A house can watch it. The new country is the pressure on that house, whether or not the gross was modest.
The household is the argument. Study is one life. Boxing is another. I won't add a fight or a speech on top of that. The father has already ranked his sons, and the ranking is the risk. If we put it on, we are watching an immigrant family, not a sports picture with a parent stuck on the side.
Journal
Keep His People in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
October Sky
76 instead of 65
October Sky is still a drama film, and it scores 76 instead of 65. What you gain is stewardship: It hands a young person the habit of trying the thing again.
The eight
- 8Industry
One son studies and one son boxes, and both paths are real work.
- 9Household
A Jewish father and his two sons are the argument of the picture.
- 5Piety
The father thinks he knows which son is his, and does not stop.
- 6Courage
The son who boxes risks his body; the other son studies.
- 7Republic
An immigrant house on the Lower East Side, with the new country pressing.
- 5Temperance
The father wants the son he already thinks belongs to him.
- 6Truth
The father thinks he knows which son is his, and that is the error.
- 6Stewardship
Two sons remain, under a father who has already ranked them.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · His People · 65IMDb
